Santa Barbara Coastal site, station Goleta Bay, Santa Barbara Channel, study of animal cover of Bugula neritina in units of percent on a yearly timescale

The EcoTrends project was established in 2004 by Dr. Debra Peters
(Jornada Basin LTER, USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range) and
Dr. Ariel Lugo (Luquillo LTER, USDA-FS Luquillo Experimental Forest)
to support the collection and analysis of long-term ecological datasets.
The project is a large synthesis effort focused on improving the accessibility
and use of long-term data. At present, there are ~50 state and federally funded
research sites that are participating and contributing to the EcoTrends project,
including all 26 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and sites funded by
the USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS), USDA Forest Service,
US Department of Energy, US Geological Survey (USGS) and numerous universities. Data from the EcoTrends project are available through an exploratory web portal
(http://www.ecotrends.info). This web portal enables the continuation of data
compilation and accessibility by users through an interactive web application.
Ongoing data compilation is updated through both manual and automatic
processing as part of the LTER Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking
Architecture (PASTA). The web portal is a collaboration between the Jornada LTER
and the LTER Network Office. The following dataset from Santa Barbara Coastal (SBC)
contains animal cover of Bugula neritina measurements in percent units
and were aggregated to a yearly timescale.

EcoTrends项目由黛布拉·彼得斯博士（约尔达盆地长期生态研究站，USDA-ARS约尔达实验牧场，Jornada Basin LTER）与阿里尔·卢戈博士（卢奎洛长期生态研究站，USDA-FS卢奎洛实验森林，Luquillo LTER）于2004年创立，旨在支持长期生态数据集的收集与分析。该项目是一项大型综合研究工作，致力于提升长期数据的可获取性与应用价值。目前，共有约50个州级及联邦资助的研究站点参与并为EcoTrends项目贡献数据，其中涵盖全部26个长期生态研究（Long-Term Ecological Research）站点，以及由美国农业部农业研究局（ARS）、美国农业部林务局（USDA-FS）、美国能源部、美国地质调查局（USGS）及众多高校资助的站点。EcoTrends项目的数据可通过探索性网络门户（http://www.ecotrends.info）获取。该网络门户借助交互式Web应用程序，支持用户持续开展数据汇编与数据获取工作。作为长期生态研究溯源感知综合跟踪架构（Provenance Aware Synthesis Tracking Architecture，PASTA）的组成部分，正在进行中的数据汇编工作通过人工与自动两种处理方式进行更新。该网络门户由约尔达LTER站点与LTER网络办公室合作开发运营。本次来自圣巴巴拉海岸（Santa Barbara Coastal，SBC）的数据集包含以百分比为单位的总合草苔虫（Bugula neritina）动物盖度测量数据，且已按年度时间尺度进行聚合。